Karonga Teachers' Training College

Karonga Teachers' Training College is a teacher training college in Karonga, on the western shore of Lake Malawi in the country's Northern Region. In Malawi, teachers' training colleges prepare teachers for primary schools. According to the Ministry of Education's Directorate of Teacher Education and Development, pre-service primary teachers are trained through 19 colleges, 10 public and 9 private, and qualify with the Primary Teacher Certificate of Education (PTCE), awarded through the Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB). Students for the Initial Primary Teacher Education (IPTE) programme at the public colleges are recruited once a year through an electronic process supported by the National Council for Higher Education. The Directorate's stated mandate is to promote, regulate, coordinate and monitor pre-service and in-service activities for primary and secondary school teachers and teacher educators. The primary schools that trainees go on to teach in run from Standard 1 to Standard 8 and end with the Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education. Karonga is reached from Mzuzu along the M1, and Karonga District borders Tanzania to the north. The area is known for its fossils, among them the dinosaur Malawisaurus, and the Cultural & Museum Centre Karonga tells the area's story in an exhibition entitled "From Dinosaurs to Democracy". The college has not published its intake dates, fees or contact details online; enquiries about recruitment to the public colleges go to the Directorate at dted@education.gov.mw.

2WWF+XWP, Karonga, Malawi
Karonga

9°57′9″S 33°55′29″E